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Quotation from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
“the greatest mistakes and faults with regard to candles, as in many other things, often bring with them instruction which we should not receive if they had not occurred.”
The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes))
Faraday turns the guttering of a candle into a lesson about learning from error.
Citation: "the greatest mistakes and faults with regard to candles, as in many other things, often bring with them instruction which we should not receive if they had not occurred." — Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes)). (id faraday-chemical-history-of-a-candle-q3)
Virtues: Humility
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
